TY - JOUR
T1 - Prospective association of parental and child internalizing symptoms: Mediation of parenting practices and irritability
AU - Valencia-Agudo, Fatima
AU - Penelo, Eva
AU - de la Osa, Núria
AU - Navarro Pastor, Jose Blas
AU - Ezpeleta Ascaso, Lourdes
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU/AEI/FEDER, UE) [grant PGC2018‐095239‐B‐I00]. The funding source had no involvement in study design, collection, and analysis of data or in the writing of the report.
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© 2021 The British Psychological Society
Copyright:
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PY - 2021/2/2
Y1 - 2021/2/2
N2 - Maternal internalizing symptoms have been linked with child internalizing symptoms, but paternal internalizing difficulties have received little attention. Our aims were to prospectively analyse the simultaneous effect of maternal and paternal internalizing symptoms on child internalizing difficulties, examining gender differences, and to verify the mediating effect of parenting practices and child irritability. The sample included 470 families assessed at child ages 3, 6, 8, and 11. Multi-group structural equation modelling was performed with Mplus8.2. Complete equivalence was found between boys and girls for all paths. Maternal internalizing symptoms at age 3 had an indirect effect on child internalizing symptoms at age 11, via irritability at age 8. Paternal internalizing symptoms at age 3 were not associated with any of the variables under study. Maternal internalizing symptoms and child irritability are targets for intervention in order to prevent child internalizing difficulties.
AB - Maternal internalizing symptoms have been linked with child internalizing symptoms, but paternal internalizing difficulties have received little attention. Our aims were to prospectively analyse the simultaneous effect of maternal and paternal internalizing symptoms on child internalizing difficulties, examining gender differences, and to verify the mediating effect of parenting practices and child irritability. The sample included 470 families assessed at child ages 3, 6, 8, and 11. Multi-group structural equation modelling was performed with Mplus8.2. Complete equivalence was found between boys and girls for all paths. Maternal internalizing symptoms at age 3 had an indirect effect on child internalizing symptoms at age 11, via irritability at age 8. Paternal internalizing symptoms at age 3 were not associated with any of the variables under study. Maternal internalizing symptoms and child irritability are targets for intervention in order to prevent child internalizing difficulties.
KW - internalizing symptoms
KW - irritability
KW - parental psychopathology
KW - parenting
KW - prevention
UR - https://ddd.uab.cat/record/236527
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U2 - 10.1111/bjdp.12367
DO - 10.1111/bjdp.12367
M3 - Article
C2 - 33528068
AN - SCOPUS:85100138791
SN - 0261-510X
VL - 39
SP - 363
EP - 379
JO - British Journal of Developmental Psychology
JF - British Journal of Developmental Psychology
IS - 3
ER -